Ian Probstein
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Ian Probstein
New York, USA

Ian Probstein is a poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. He has authored, edited, and/or translated many books, including The River of Time: Time-Space, Language, and History in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Poetry (Boston, 2017); Complete annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays (St. Petersburg, 2019); Charles Bernstein. Sign Under Test: Selected Poems and Essays (Moscow, 2020); Contemporary American Poetry in Russian from Black Mountain Poets to Language Poetry, co-editor with Vl. Feshchenko;Centuries Encircle me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, a bilingual edition. Translation, introduction, and commentary by Ian Probstein (Boston, 2022); Dmitry Strotsev. War and Peace. Selected poems translated into English (New York, 2025), etc.

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book Queen
by Borys Khersonsky. Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum, translators

The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.

Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying spin of memory and imagination.

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by Yelena Matusevich

A collection of very short stories. In Russian.

 

Maxim Matusevich's book
by Maxim Matusevich

Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.

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